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Frank Dellaert @fdellaert.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Proud to have contributed a tiny part to this cool paper.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

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Kosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I know this look well. It’s the same one I get when I introduce the Fourier transform in my computer vision course to the CS crowd.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 31/03/2025

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

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Frank Dellaert @fdellaert.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Part 2 of SLAM handbook is out for public comments! let us know what you think :-) Issue tracker on GitHub awaits! Link: github.com/SLAM-Handboo...

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”

The image is a heatmap titled "Measles," showing measles cases across U.S. states from 1928 to 2003. States listed on the y-axis include Alaska, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. The x-axis spans years from 1928 to 2003. A vertical line marks the introduction of the measles vaccine around 1963. The color scale at the bottom ranges from blue (0 cases) to red (4,000+ cases), with shades of green, yellow, and orange indicating intermediate values (1,000, 2,000, 3,000 cases). Before 1963, many states show frequent high case numbers (yellow to red), while after 1963, cases drop significantly, with mostly blue indicating near-zero cases.

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Andrew Davison @ajdavison.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Aria Gen 2 is very impressive, with fully onboard SLAM and various other perception all within a 75g device with an hours-long battery life. Processing on custom silicon. Congrats to the Reality Labs team.

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Introducing Aria Gen 2: Unlocking New Research in Machine Perception, Contextual AI, Robotics, and More

Today, we're excited to announce the next step in the Project Aria journey: the introduction of Aria Gen 2 research glasses.

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Riku Murai @rmurai0610.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

MASt3R-SLAM code release! github.com/rmurai0610/M... Try it out on videos or with a live camera Work with @ericdexheimer.bsky.social*, @ajdavison.bsky.social (*Equal Contribution)

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Frank Dellaert @fdellaert.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Some personal news: as of January I am back full-time at Georgia Tech following a 2-year leave as Verdant Robotics’ CTO. I will continue to be involved with Verdant as part-time Chief AI Officer, thinking strategically about the role of AI in Robotics for Ag.

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Frank Dellaert @fdellaert.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Gemini is good but too verbose :-)

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Frank Dellaert @fdellaert.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The visual system of a jumping spider is fascinating. Look at those cones behind the fixed main lenses! The retinas are at the end of the cones. youtu.be/gvN_ex95IcE?...

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Yellow amycine jumping spider, Reserva Canadé, Ecuador

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

We've built a simulated driving agent that we trained on 1.6 billion km of driving with no human data. It is SOTA on every planning benchmark we tried. In self-play, it goes 20 years between collisions.

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Alexandre Morgand, PhD @alexmrgd.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Video Depth Anything: Consistent Depth Estimation for Super-Long Videos TL;DR: Long videos support; Depth Anything V2 with efficient spatial-temporal head. Temporal consistency loss -> depth gradient (no geometric priors)

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Frank Dellaert @fdellaert.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

That’s such a cool idea! (Thanks K for flagging this to me)

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Frank Dellaert @fdellaert.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

First iRIM@GT seminar of 2025: Ani Majumdar! Well attended!

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Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Getting myself set up here. I found the Sky Follower Bridge Chrome plugin pretty helpful (thanks @kawamataryo.bsky.social!) chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...

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Sky Follower Bridge - Chrome Web Store

Easily transfer your following users and list members from X to Bluesky.

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Frank Dellaert @fdellaert.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

3D feed-forward Gaussian Splatting feels like magic, let alone 4D!

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Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

100 years ago today, #OTD in 1925, Edwin Hubble announced that Andromeda and other spiral nebulae were definitely separate galaxies outside the Milky Way, in a paper read to an AAS meeting by H.N. Russell. There was no doubt that the Universe was more than just our little island of stars. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️

A black and white photo of M31, the Andromeda galaxy. It is characterized by spiral arms and dark lanes of dust and gas, with a bright center.

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Frank Dellaert @fdellaert.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

ChatGPT canvas is cool. Maybe a bit slow still.

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Alfredo Canziani @alfcnz.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Convolutional Differentiable Logic Gate Networks @FHKPetersen

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Frank Dellaert @fdellaert.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Today I used ChatGPT canvas to help me simplify the SE_2(3) exponential map calculation, and its Jacobian. 4o looks dumb in comparison to o1 now, though :-(

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linyijin.bsky.social @linyijin.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Introducing 👀Stereo4D👀 A method for mining 4D from internet stereo videos. It enables large-scale, high-quality, dynamic, *metric* 3D reconstructions, with camera poses and long-term 3D motion trajectories. We used Stereo4D to make a dataset of over 100k real-world 4D scenes.

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Frank Dellaert @fdellaert.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Back in college I took a developmental biology class. This field has come so far with advancing technologies like light sheet microscopy. This video is just plain amazing.

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Frank Dellaert @fdellaert.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I’m talking differential geometry with ChatGPT o1 like there is no tomorrow. This thing is amazing. On the other hand, I might need my own nuclear power station.

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Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Zhengqi led a really nice new paper that computes really nice camera poses and depth maps from everyday videos, not just the standard SLAM-mable sorts of videos you often see. It's really fast and robust, and I think it's quite neat.

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Andrew Davison @ajdavison.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Fit-NGP: millimetre accurate 3D object pose estimation from RGB images only via Instant NGP. What can we do in manipulation with this level of accuracy? From Marwan and Ignacio from the Dyson Robotics Lab, Imperial College, ICRA24. marwan99.github.io/Fit-NGP/ youtu.be/KQ7yH_em3Qg?...

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[ICRA 2024] Fit-NGP: Fitting Object Models to Neural Graphics Primitives

YouTube video by Dyson Robotics Laboratory at Imperial College

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Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I'd like to introduce what I've been working at @hellorobot.bsky.social: Stretch AI, a set of open-source tools for language-guided autonomy, exploration, navigation, and learning from demonstration. Check it out: github.com/hello-robot/... Thread ->

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ruiqigao.bsky.social @ruiqigao.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

A common question nowadays: Which is better, diffusion or flow matching? 🤔 Our answer: They’re two sides of the same coin. We wrote a blog post to show how diffusion models and Gaussian flow matching are equivalent. That’s great: It means you can use them interchangeably.

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Michael J. Black @michael-j-black.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

MoSh has won the 2024 SIGGRAPH Asia Test-of-Time Award. What’s MoSh? It takes motion capture markers and returns the animation of a realistic 3D human body in #SMPL-X format. I wrote a blog post to explain why MoSh is still relevant after 10 years. perceiving-systems.blog/en/news/moti...

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Hermann Blum @hermannblum.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Turns out aria-glasses are a very useful tool to demonstrate actions to robots: Based on egocentric video we track dynamic changes in a scene graph and use the representation to replay or plan interactions for robots 🔗 behretj.github.io/LostAndFound/ 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2411.19162 📺 youtu.be/xxMsaBSeMXo

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emilk @ernerfeldt.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

We implemented undo in @rerun.io by storing the viewer state in the same type of in-memory database we use for the recorded data. Have a look (sound on!)

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Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I'm really excited about structure from motion, which is having a real renaissance (ACE0, FlowMap, MASt3R-SfM, VGGSfM, GLOMAP, etc). It will be cool to see how SfM methods interact with VLMs -- SfM always seems like the last problem to jump on the latest bandwagon, but maybe that will change.

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Andrei Bursuc @abursuc.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

DiffusionDrive: Truncated Diffusion Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arxiv.org/abs/2411.151... It learns denoising from anchored Gaussian distribution to multi-node driving action distribution, seemingly without many tricks.

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Thomas Wood @phytomech.com · 27/11/2024

Everyone is going to call it The SLAMdbook

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Frank Dellaert @fdellaert.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Welcome Andy to BlueSky! Let’s get this flywheel running!

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Andrew Davison @ajdavison.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

For my first post on Bluesky, this recent talk I did at the recent BMVA one day meeting on World Models is a good summary of my work on Computer Vision, Robotics and SLAM, and my thoughts on a bigger picture of #SpatialAI. youtu.be/NLnPG95vNhQ?...

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1 Andrew Davison, Imperial College London - BMVA Symposium: Robotics Foundation & World Models

YouTube video by BMVA: British Machine Vision Association

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Frank Dellaert @fdellaert.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Almost all accounts I am following are the ones that actually have an informative profile, incl. a real first and last name….

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Vahe Taamazyan @vaheta.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

1/ A small glimpse into our work at Intrinsic. Building reliable robotics & perception systems is really hard. AI solutions still struggle with hallucinations & occasional failures, which is a major reason why AI isn’t yet widely used in many industries. But that’s changing.

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Leland McInnes @lelandmcinnes.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I recently wrote a primer on UMAP for Nature Reviews Primers. If you are looking for an overview of the method, a getting started primer, or best practices it is a good place to start. rdcu.be/d0YZT

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Uniform manifold approximation and projection

Nature Reviews Methods Primers - Uniform manifold approximation and projection is a dimensionality reduction technique used to visualize and understand high-dimensional data. In this Primer, Healy...

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Chris Offner @chrisoffner3d.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

After my general computer vision starter pack is now full (150/150 entries reached), here is one specific to 3D Vision: go.bsky.app/Cfm9XFe

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Lucas Beyer (bl16) @giffmana.ai · 20/11/2024

www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-did-yo...

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 19/11/2024

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

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